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Gourmet Rhapsody Shortlisted - World's Best Book on Food!
Congratulations to author, Muriel Barbery, and translator, Alison Anderson! In an odd twist, Muriel Barbery's novel Gourmet Rhapsody will represent the USA in the category "Best Translation"... -
Most Beautiful Cover in the World?
New York Times Book Design Blog has named the cover of The Most Beautiful Book in the World as one of its favorite covers of of 2009. More >> -
Two Europa Titles Nominated for IMPAC Award
Muriel Barbery's Gourmet Rhapsody and Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter have been long-listed for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award! The Elegance of the Hedgehog received numerous... -
The New Yorker: "The chill of suspicion and incomprehension..."
“The chill of suspicion and incomprehension came between me and humankind when I was sixteen,” Bilenchi’s spare, dark bildungsroman begins. Following an unnamed teen-ager’s initiation... -
The Seattle Times: "Old Filth"
This incomparable novel by English author Jane Gardam is the story of Sir Edward Feathers, a wealthy old Englishman who has endured loss after loss in his long and complicated life. By turns hilarious... -
Man in the Wooden Hat named one of the best books of 2009 by Publishers Weekly
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Lia Levi, author of The Jewish Husband: tour dates
Winner of the Moravia Prize for fiction, The Jewish Husband is a bittersweet story of passion and hatred, cruelty and oppression. It is an account of a country and a time about which too little has been... -
NPR's "Fresh Air": The Inner Life Of An Imperfect Marriage
Listen to the entire story on NPR's Fresh Air She's the best contemporary British writer you probably haven't heard of; that's how I identify Jane Gardam to those readers, and... -
Boualem Sansal on Tour
The internationally acclaimed Algerian author presents his latest novel, The German Mujahid. In this groundbreaking story the author describes his country’s turbulent political issues in a daring... -
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt on Tour
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is one of Europe's best-selling and best loved authors. His most recent collection, "stories of redemption and reconciliation that carry a slight pleasant aftertaste, a lingering...